Word: discussable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House telephone tinkled. Secretary George Akerson answered it. His Chief was calling from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Now, said the President, it could be told: he and Prime Minister MacDonald had agreed to have the latter issue invitations to France, Italy and Japan to discuss naval reductions with Britain and the U. S. in London on Jan. 20. The invitations would go out on the morrow (see p. 27). Like most momentous news it was very simple. There was nothing more to say - yet - about the historic "conversations." So the President helped the world press...
...imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President Hoover in private, the Maharajah of Kapurthala was not pre pared...
...Chicago, waiting for a B. & O. train to Washington, Mrs. Gann said reprovingly, pleasantly: "I never, never discuss that...
...Hitherto when a popular play or book has been banned, the only effect has unfortunately been a good deal of mud-slinging by those on either side of the question, without any effort to fight on common ground. That there should be some assembly whose function would be to discuss and criticize matters that come up for censorship, submitting at least an advisory opinion to the body in which the actual power is vested, has become manifest. It is probably too much to hope that the meeting tonight will lead directly to the formation of such an assembly. It should...
...Barcroft's topic for his series of lectures is "Some Features in the Architecture of Function." The opening one, on Monday, was entitled "Integrative Adaptation", on Friday he will discuss "The Principle of Antagonism"; and on Monday, "Stores of Material...